Professor Elam

Imagine  four multi millionaire actors at the top of their game.  Imagine that they  can pick and choose their scripts.  Imagine that they have left B Movie Roles like
playing teen age werewolves (don’t laugh, Michael Landon and Michael Fox both did just that starting out)  far behind them.  We can do art, we can do creative, we can stretch ourselves. 

Now imagine that you and I are dead wrong in these assumptions. 

Clint Eastwood  once said you can learn a lot watching a bad movie and as the star of Pink Cadillac , he should know, one of his worst turkeys ever.  But I digress.

Bill Macy (Fargo), John Travolta (Broken Arrow), Martin Lawrence (Nothing to Lose), and  Tim Allen (Tool Time) are cast in  a turkey featurning the lamest script, worst dialog, worst collectionof junior high locker room humor, worst features of Any Which Way you Can , the Wild One , and  well, well.

I guess four stars can be bought for money to be in a sub B movie  like this.  Ray Liotta and a surprise cameo by Peter Fonda only scream, gee this much talent and such a waste.

The Idea is that four fifty something guys take a road trip to relieve the tensions of life.  Even the set up  of their four lives at the beginning  is lame, forecasting the dud to come.   I actually did make it to the end of the movie which tells you just how much I am putting off re doing the assignment sheet for cost….but it never got better, so at least it was consistently bad.

Ok, that’s my pick so far this year, what’s yours?  OF course with the ever present lure of big money to lure a guaranteed box office winner, like  these four guys, and greed being what it is in Hollywood, we must be ever vigilant for the emergence of an even bigger turkey before the year is out…….I will trust all of you to keep us forewarned.

On other fronts I read a great review of the second remake starring Nicole Kidman of
Invasionof the Body Snatchers.    The 1978 version with Donald Sutherland was truly great sci fi, check it out if you can find it.